Legacy: Eisenhower’s two terms as president were very successful, with Eisenhower accomplishing many different feats, and overcoming multiple challenges throughout his presidencies. Some of the successes of Eisenhower were that he successfully kept America at peace, between the Korean War and tension with the Soviet Union. He also managed to pass the Federal-Aid Highway Act, consisting of plans for the construction of highways throughout America, which improved the traffic with the increasing number of vehicles in America and also made it possible to evacuate cities faster in case of nuclear attack. Another success of Eisenhower was the passing of the National Defense Education Act, which had long term benefits of improving the education system within primary and secondary schools, as well as providing support for loans for college students. The challenges that Eisenhower faced during his presidencies were both foreign and domestic challenges. One of the foreign challenges that he faced was the space race with the USSR. To overcome this challenge Eisenhower created NASA, which became the US’s base for space exploration, and eventually helped lead to the US’s victory over the Soviet Union in the space race. Some of the domestic challenges that Eisenhower faced were issues with racism in the US, as well as issues with civil rights. These two challenges often became entangled with one another, but Eisenhower managed to be fairly successful in his responses to them, with his deployment of federal troops to enforce the integration of schools, and the passing of the 1957 Civil Rights Act. The reason he wasn’t completely successful with these two challenges, was that he was very reactionary in his actions, and with civil rights he failed to achieve enough to meet what the people were demanding at the time. The two terms that Eisenhower spent as the president were concluded in 1961, with him leaving America in a better condition than it was when he took office.